It's been a long, long time since I last blogged at length - basically life has been hectic.
Anyway, I've just got back from EuroFoo and EuroOSCON - which were both outstanding events.
I ran one session at EuroFoo - on commoditisation of manufacturing. I gave one talk at EuroOSCON - on commoditisation of manufacturing - and then spent the rest of the time talking about commoditisation of software and our new product Zimki.
This was Zimki's second outing, and we seemed to get a positive response - not just to the product itself, a JavaScript application platform, but also to the ideas behind it and the plans to create an international grid of operating environments.
Nicholas Carr has written another excellent article on this, and the end of corporate computing environments, this is exactly what we have been talking about.
Most evenings I spent in the company of Greg Stein, Ben Laurie, Andrew Kelly, Denise Kalos and Piers Crawley which was wonderful. There were so many interesting people at the conference and it was a truly fantastic experience.
Damian Conway spent some time with helping to get my presentation in shape - something I'm extremely grateful for.
The Maker faire was as usual wild, with some very crazy stuff indeed - including stem cell harvesting! Visions of scary biological manufacturing stuff appearing around the corner.
Anyway, I'm back home now, and there is lots of work to be done and ducks to feed!
